Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 318 - A happy Finn is one who knows it could be worse

Another TogetherForSafety claim falls; the Biden Administration's disinformation board dies; and what the concept of the separation of church and state actually means.

https://gript.ie/revealed-the-falsehood-repeated-again-and-again-in-the-dail/

TRSI 317 - You’ll take my meal deal from my cold, dead hands

Journalism is an industry flush with morals but lacking ethics; the HSE thinks meal deals should be illegal; and Alcohol Action Ireland is going to win regardless of which way the numbers go.

https://gript.ie/anti-misinformation-think-tank-spreads-trans-misinformation/

https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/food-pyramid-images/daily-meal-plan-a4-michael-age-52.pdf

TRSI 316 - Shame! Shame! Shame!

The building trade is going off the rails; what's actually happening with Roe v Wade; and Gary pulls apart another study, this time on religious teachers.

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/state-to-double-imported-emergency-power-generators-amid-new-supply-fears-68f3b3e8

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/houses/all-local-authorities-to-be-contacted-over-potential-mica-problems-ad521130

 

https://gript.ie/significant-methodological-issues-with-recent-study-on-non-religious-teachers-fears/

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/non-religious-teachers-hide-beliefs-for-job-opportunities-study-1.4868122

TRSI 315 - Constant vigilance

Some days the media just picks a person and decides that person is either a hero or a villain, and how do you trust a media willing to misrepresent certain issues, and people, consistently?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40862486.html

 

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_international_surrogacy/2022-04-21/3/#spk_20

 

Author realizes her new book contains gross inaccuracies on live radio

https://gript.ie/no-a-new-study-did-not-show-that-non-white-offenders-get-longer-prison-sentences/

https://www.iprt.ie/site/assets/files/7076/iprt_the_rights-_needs_and_experiences_of_foreign_national_and_minority_ethnic_groups.pdf

TRSI 314 - The politics of the current thing

The Minister for Justice has made illegal two things that were already illegal; the Government appears to be striving to cause resentment of Ukranian refugees; and the ICCL is back to claiming to be 100% independent, but it's not the Irish public who pay their wages.

TRSI 313 - And now your shoes are covered in beer

The Taoiseach said Russia's actions in Ukraine constitute genocide, but doesn't bother to elaborate on that; the nation is stunned to discover officials in the Department of Health think little of Stephen Donnelly; and the Government discovers that saying you'll house 200,000 refugees is different than being actually able to house 200,000 refugees.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/casual-contempt-for-donnelly-exposed-as-watt-lets-mask-slip-1.4847975
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/nowhere-for-10000-ukrainian-refugees-to-stay-by-end-of-month-cabinet-told-in-secret-briefing-41528511.html
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/emmanuel-macron-could-lose-frances-presidential-election/

TRSI 312 - We are what we repeatedly do

Fine Gael are said to be trying to move to the economic right to bolster their polling numbers, but given their previous promises regarding the USC why would anyone trust them to tell the truth now?

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-refugee-crisis-cannot-be-treated-as-opportunity-to-show-how-lovely-ireland-is-1.4839320
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tanaiste-leo-varadkar-trying-to-give-fine-gael-edge-with-centre-right-policies-d65s088wr
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/pat-leahy-the-squeezed-middle-are-back-and-they-re-mad-as-hell-1.4842198
https://gript.ie/fact-check-donohoe-previously-called-usc-an-emergency-measure-promised-to-abolish-it/

TRSI 311 - Not mentioning the war means mentioning the war

Turns out Irish people don't trust the media a whole lot; Ivan Bacik's first interview leaves something to desire; and Michael asks if you can trust foreign newspapers.

 

Roast Tomato and Smoked Bacon Soup

Ingredients

40g butter
8 tomatoes roasted
1 onion
1/2 leek
2 celery sticks
3 garlic gloves minced
2 stock cubes
100ml double cream
100ml balsamic vinegar
150g smoked bacon

Method

1 - In an oven tray place the tomatoes with the balsamic vinegar and a place of salt and sugar, roast in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
2 - In a saucepan saute of the smoked bacon, onion, celery and garlic in butter.
3 - Add the tomatoes to the saucepan with the stock, cubes and simmer for 40 minutes.
4 - Add the double cream and blend.
5 - Add a pinch of sugar and taste for seasoning.

TRSI 310 - Cathal Crowe says cast them into the void

FF TD Cathal Crowe says the quiet part out loud; the case of a woman raped by a transgender woman in a British hospital ward; and Foucault is back in the news because people remembered he was a paedophile.

TRSI 309 - Precedent is the first step on the road to normalisation

Neutrality proves a tricky thing for the government to define; Facebook's kill list; cost of living shockingly continues to increase; and Scottish research shows minimum alcohol pricing drives cross-border shopping.

 

https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf
https://edmundburkeinstitute.ie/over-55-of-irish-people-have-not-heated-their-homes-at-some-point-in-the-last-year-due-to-energy-prices/